Jealous?

@@yakyappers A bit yeah, such mass.

I am sure you could. I didn’t though.

Come on and try it.

If someone with a brain had legal authority it wouldn’t be legal to torture animals invasive or not u should be arrested for animal abuse and like I said your punishment should be locked in a freezer in a ziplock till you die

Well let’s just say I’m not filming everyone of them that I come across…

Yeah ok I’ll just send them back to Cuba!

I agree with you but, now that wouldn’t go over very well with KZbin now would it? Do yourself a favor and do some research and you will see that the way I terminated it is the way that all the so called experts say to do it. Well except I didn’t put the benzocaine on its back first. It’s real easy, just search Cuban tree frog and you will see.

Nope. Most definitely is a Cuban tree frog, you can tell by the numbs on it’s back. Cuban tree frogs have more individual warts where the grey tree frog the warts all join together so it’s more like one lumpy wart all over

In missouri with a grey on my shoulder watching his cousin die. Idk man. Greys change color. Looks like a grey to me. They got yellow on the legs. Cage it then. Don't kill it.

That was a Cuban tree frog I don’t believe grey treefrogs are found in Florida however I can see how u get them confused I used to get them confused too

I can tell you that in the last 5 years I have seen a huge decline in the small native green tree frogs. I used to see them all the time at my house. Now I don’t see any at all. So how are you going to tell me that the native tree frogs here are doing fine? The articles that you will find in the links I provided are a few of many. Sorry but YOU will not change my mind. sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/archive/hot_topics/environment/cuban_treefrogs.shtml ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/cuban_treefrog_infl.shtml#:~:text=After%20you%20capture%20the%20frog,release%20them%20into%20our%20ecosystem. www.jacksonville.com/story/special/special-sections/2019/07/05/garden-qampa-cuban-tree-frogs-are-wiping-out-florida-natives/4700927007/#

@@yakyappers I get what your talking about but these things usually get stable in time. The populations of native populations have gone down, but that’s mostly due to climate change and deforestation. Extra competition does make it more difficult, but on top of the benefits the species can do, it’s also just immoral. Throwing a frog that had no say in being here in a freezer to kill it, when there are far more concerning invasive species to worry about just feels wrong. Sorry if i came off a bit harsh in the original comment. I am an animal lover, so watching animals being killed for something beyond there control just makes me sad. I appreciate the care though. Most people i see here don’t really seem to care, about this sort of thing. Or at least not openly.

​@@etsap1236 I'm sorry you feel that way, however, we have no evidence that cuban tree frogs are helping Florida's ecosystems in any way. They grow faster than native frogs, reproduce earlier in the season, and will eat anything they can. They're rapidly spreading through Florida, outcompeting and consuming all native frogs in the region. A recent geological survey in 2018 found that a population had made its way to Louisiana, with several hundred being caught, while not a single native frog was found within their radius. These frogs are not going to be "stable" with any amount of time if we don't control them. Some invasive species can become naturalized over time, but these frogs don't have that capability. As an evolutionary biologist and conservationist, it's my strong opinion, and the opinion of countless other ecologists, that the best we can do it remove them and humanly euthanize them through means of freezing. I know you don't want to see animals getting hurt or killed, but a single frog will hurt and kill far more native animals if we leave it alone. There's no getting past that. Despite their ability to damage non-native ecosystems, we should be treating them with respect as they're removed. It's like what David Lodge, an ecologist and conservationist, often said before us: "Invasive species aren't inherently evil, they're just in the wrong place".

@@etsap1236What deforestation? There are more trees in North America than there was at the time of European Settlers

@@odins.outlaw0711 Yeah but many trees have been destroyed in the last decade due to really bad hurricanes. I can still see the wall of snapped tree on the highway from hurricane Micheal. Also just cause there is more trees now compared to then Dosnt mean there isn’t still deforestation. Many natives before the European settlers got here would burn forests down to chase the animals out and into a trap.

Lol thank you

Honestly shotgun would be more humane than freezing. Shotgun is instant obliteration, freezing is slow uncomfortable death

@@camblas6380 actually freezing is painless for most insects or some cold blooded animals. Idk about frogs though Edit: I looked it up and apparently that’s not the case for frogs. So it’s only insects that are painless when frozen. Rip 😭

@@JakeyBro69 they typically dont notice very slow gradual temperature change, but being taken from outside and thrown in freezer is painful, imagine feeling your blood crystallize. There was an experiment done with frogs, not sure which species, in which a frog was placed in boiling water and it instantly jumped out. Another frog was put in room temperature water, and it was very slowly heated. The frog didn't notice and got cooked alive. As cold blooded animals, they rely on external temperature to moderate their body heat, so they will move to another place to warm up or cool down. They notice temperature changes. The boiling frog experiment conducted by several different people yeilded different results based on how slowly the water was heated.

The whole purpose is to not have to buy batteries. I do have an Engel pump as well. It came with the Engel bait cooler. On this Hush bubbles pump I turned the voltage down a bit more and it quieted down a good bit.

Introduce another much larger non native frog? So it outcompetes all native tree frogs? Are you dumb?

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